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flash player not working in fire fox 4.0.1

hi all i need some help big time. I’m running open suse 11.4 with gnome desk top.the flash player in fire fox 4.0.1 is installed but i still can't get any you tube video’s to work or any video’s for that mater.i did in stall an add-on called flash -aid. and not sure what happen. so i uninstalled the add-on and un installed flash player a couple of times and reinstalled it.and i still have no way to see any video's at all. any help is appreciated .thanks in advance.

Re: flash player not working in fire fox 4.0.1

aburroughs92

hi all i need some help big time. I’m running open suse 11.4 with gnome desk top.the flash player in fire fox 4.0.1 is installed but i still can't get any you tube video’s to work or any video’s for that mater.i did in stall an add-on called flash -aid. and not sure what happen. so i uninstalled the add-on and un installed flash player a couple of times and reinstalled it.and i still have no way to see any video's at all. any help is appreciated .thanks in advance.

aburroughs92, look at message #84 in this thread to see if this might help you out:

Re: flash player not working in fire fox 4.0.1

thanks jdmcdaniel3. i have tried this one before but i can't get the flashplayer.so in the right place.and when i go to do the command line for the 0ld i get nothing.is there any other way to do that in the command line? when i do the top line it works but when i go to use the other command line that is where i get in to trouble. thanks

Re: flash player not working in fire fox 4.0.1

sorry i just noticed that I’m missing a plug in.the wrapper one.could this be the problem? if so how do i get the plug -in? thanks for your help.and is the gnash video player plug -in any good? or is adobe better.thanks ...

Re: flash player not working in fire fox 4.0.1

When I click on the above link, the file libflashplayer.so is copied to my /home/username/Downloads also refered to as ~/Downloads. You should be able to load up a file manager like Dolphin, look in the Downloads folder and see if it is there. You can use the following terminal command to see if it is there:

Code:

dir ~/Downloads/libflashplayer.so

Please confirm that you have downloaded the proper file to the correct location.

2. From Terminal run the command:

Code:

sudo zypper rm pullin-flash-player flash-player nspluginwrapper

This command removes all older flash files from YaST. If you run this command successfully and don't put the file listed above in the right place, flash will not work at all. You can confirm that you unloaded flash by running:

YaST / Software / Software Management and search on the term flash. If you find nothing loaded, then you have removed the old flash files. Please confirm that you have removed the flash files by looking through YaST as suggested above.

3. Copy the new Flash File you downloaded to the proper location. Open up a terminal session and type the command:

Code:

sudo cp ~/Downloads/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/

You can confirm you have copied it to the correct location by running this terminal command:

Notice the file I have shown in bold (it is not normally shown in bold) that indicates the file has went to the right place. Please confirm you have copied the file to the correct location by showing your directory command just as I have done.

Now, if all of these steps are correct, you should be able to run Firefox and go to:

Tools / Addons / Plugins and see the entry that says:

Shockwave Flash 10.3 d162

If you can see that now there go to the following site, register for a new computer with nVIDIA if you can which only works if Flash is working:

Re: flash player not working in fire fox 4.0.1

OK that worked thank you so much. i will have to book mark this page or some thing just in case some thing else happens.thank you very,very much......i hope this post will help others.the only bad thing is the one page i really like to look at still has a very choppy picture.but when i look at it in full screen it is great...but if i look at it in the web page that is were it is choppy.makes no scene to me.but i did make a bug report to Mozilla about it. thank you again.

Re: flash player not working in fire fox 4.0.1

Originally Posted by aburroughs92

...I’m running open suse 11.4 with gnome desk top...

You didn't say if you are running 64bit or 32bit versions of 11.4. Either way, I run 32bit flash-player (flash-player-10.3.181.14-0.2.1.i586) on KDE and on Gnome without issues. Installing it should also install the necessary "nspluginwrapper" for 64bit 11.4.

Re: flash player not working in fire fox 4.0.1

Originally Posted by aburroughs92

OK that worked thank you so much. i will have to book mark this page or some thing just in case some thing else happens.thank you very,very much......i hope this post will help others.the only bad thing is the one page i really like to look at still has a very choppy picture.but when i look at it in full screen it is great...but if i look at it in the web page that is were it is choppy.makes no scene to me.but i did make a bug report to Mozilla about it. thank you again.

Thanks for posting a link to the bug report, so others could review it, comment on it and/or vote on it.